Helen, what was your most memorable Christmas ever?” I asked my 86-year-old mother-in-law. Without hesitation, she replied, “When we lived in the chicken coop.” When Helen was 5 or 6 years old, ...

Thousands of years before the Egyptians and the African wild cats “negotiated” a deal with each other that exchanged pest control for steady food and shelter, cats were hunting, stalking, marking ...